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Cops visited Helena Wright’s house hours before she plunged to her death from clifftop with her two infant children – as police confirm she spoke to them the day before and share harrowing update on search for her baby
A woman named Helena Wright died after falling from a clifftop near Port MacDonnell along with her two infant children, in circumstances that police are now examining closely. It has emerged that officers visited her home hours before the incident took place, and police have since confirmed she was in contact with them the day…
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GTA Online in-game gambling reportedly blocked in Australia, leaving folks down under locked out of Diamond Casino games
GTA Online players in Australia have reportedly been locked out of the game’s Diamond Casino gambling minigames, following what appears to be a deliberate change by developer Rockstar to restrict access for users in that country. The move follows Australian legislation introduced in 2024 that classifies simulated casino-style games as gambling-like content restricted to adults,…
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Banijay Entertainment H1 Revenues Dip in First Earnings Update Since Completion of All3Media Deal
Banijay Entertainment has reported its first financial results since completing its merger with All3Media, showing a slight dip in first-half revenues. The figures, covering January to June 2026, do not yet include All3Media’s performance, which will only be folded in from the second half of the year onwards, meaning the full effect of the deal…
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Boomers Can’t Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop Books
An increasing number of grandparents are gifting AI-generated “personalised” children’s books that insert real children as characters, often against their parents’ wishes and without consent to use their images or personal details. Platforms such as Imagitime, StoryWonderBook and Childbook.ai market these customised storybooks heavily, but parents interviewed describe them as poorly written and unengaging compared…
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Dating’s new red flag: Voting the ‘wrong’ way could leave you single for good
A Fox News opinion column argues that political alignment has become a decisive factor on dating apps, particularly in cities such as New York, Washington DC and Los Angeles, with the writer claiming users increasingly signal political views on profiles before revealing basic personal details. The piece frames this as a growing trend among Democratic-leaning…
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ICE’s New Detention Center Contracts Declare State Laws ‘Shall Not Apply’
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has published draft contract terms for private detention facilities that explicitly state state and local laws “shall not apply” to their operations, according to federal documents seen by WIRED. The move came just a day after a federal judge ruled that contracts cannot override state law and ordered ICE’s largest…
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Ball x Pit’s Final Free Update Bounces Onto Switch Next Month
Devolver Digital and Kenny Sun have confirmed that BALL x PIT will receive its final free update, named “Naturalist”, on 6th August, bringing to a close 10 months of post-launch content for the Switch roguelite. The update matters as it marks the conclusion of an unusually sustained support period for the game, giving both existing…
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Shares in Asian chip firms plunge further as AI sell-off continues
Shares in Asian semiconductor companies fell sharply for a second consecutive day after South Korea’s SK Hynix posted quarterly results that, despite being record profits, fell short of investor expectations. The sell-off underscores growing unease about whether the enormous spending by technology firms on AI infrastructure can be sustained, with the memory chip sector having…
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Banijay reports lower first-half revenue ahead of All3Media merger impact
Banijay Entertainment, the production giant behind hits such as Peaky Blinders, Black Mirror and Big Brother, reported a 2.2 percent decline in first-half revenue in its first financial update since completing its major merger with All3Media (The Traitors, Squid Game: The Challenge). The dip reflected lower production volumes rather than any effect of the merger,…
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Clair Obscur Dev Still Interested In Switch 2 Port, But Admits It Would Be A “Big Technical Challenge”
Sandfall Interactive, the French studio behind Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, has reaffirmed its interest in bringing the acclaimed role-playing game to Nintendo Switch 2, though it stopped short of confirming any official plans. Speaking to Automaton, studio figures acknowledged that adapting the Unreal Engine 5 title for Nintendo’s console would be a significant technical undertaking,…